Ian Ableson

I am a Michigan-based author, an ecologist by training and a writer by choice. I write primarily fantasy, mystery, and horror. I have a particular soft spot for lighthearted fantasy and really well-constructed mysteries that just barely give you enough information to put it all together yourself.

They say to write what you know. When I'm not writing, I spend a lot of time scowling at clipboards while ankle-deep in the marshes of Southeast Michigan. So I’ve written of forest-bound terrors, desperate races through wetlands, and at least two different types of mischievous woodland spirits. There’s a lot of time to think about these things when you’re walking alone through unknown woods.

The bird in the picture is named Autumn. She’s a wonderful old great-horned owl I used to work with. She’s in her mid-twenties, she’s paralyzed in one wing, and she had some very choice words for me about that particular presentation at Belvedere Castle, New York City.

I hope you enjoy my stories.